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Saturday, July 30, 2011

Going on a date? More specifically a first date? What should you do? Where should you take her? Food is always a good idea. Feeding your date has got to be the number 1 thing to gain some kind of positive cool points with her. With her stomach full, she just might forget the fact that you don’t drive a Mercedes. Oh, and to those guys reading who actually own a Mercedes, news flash: she’s only paying attention to you for your car. Ladies, where would you like to be taken on a date? What would you like to do? What do you like eat? All great questions. Yes, fantastic questions. But with plenty of different answers.

Unfortunately for those of us on an actual budget, those different answers can mean many different price ranges for that evening. Yes Nicki Minaj, I look at the price tag. But although the cost of a date may be important on a certain level, a more important aspect is the actual date. What to do while you spend time trying to get to know someone? Being a gi-normous lover of film, quite frankly I can probably go to the theater every day if I could (again, my budget does not permit this, movie prices are not going down any time soon). Whereas whomever I deem lucky enough to allow to hang out with me for an evening may not embrace my same desire. One that lets me sit in a dark theater and either thoroughly enjoy or ridicule a film that Hollywood or an independent filmmaker has placed on the screen in front of me. So what to do?

Yeah, Season 4 Yeah!! The JERSEY SHORE squad are taking their talents to Florence, Italy. The mother land. Everyone is back to see what havoc and mischief they can get themselves into in another country. Also, to see if they can smush any Italian girls...yeah, and I guess guys too. The season premiere airs next Thursday night (the official Jersey Shore night) August 4th only on MTV. Let's see if the show can continue its success as the network's all-time number one watched series. Check out the extended trailer, a clip and promo below.

Friday, July 15, 2011

Sitting in the theater I waited surprisingly patient for the
conclusion of the end. The end of an
epic, the end of an era, the end of something rather big. Heck, you might as well call the Harry Potter series this generations Star Wars. Yeah, it lasted two more movies than the
latter did but still, it’s that big a deal.
I got there pretty early, finished up my nachos and reluctantly listened
to the mixed crowd of mostly young and quite annoying people count down the
time until the final installment began.
Finally, the lights lowered, the speakers awoken and we were met with
about almost 10 minutes of previews. The
only one I was really, really, really (did I use enough really’s) looking
forward to was The Dark Knight Rises. Yeah I saw it already but I was actually a
little nervous to see it on the big screen.
After it was over, I kind of felt like my evening had reached its
climax. I realized I was more looking
forward to this 1:36 teaser trailer than the actual feature film I had paid
money for. It was then that I knew what
a woman felt like whose partner didn’t quite last as long as she had
hoped. But, thankfully, that all changed
about a half hour into the movie.

Harry (Danielle Radcliffe), Ron (Rupert Grint) and Hermione
(Emma Watson) are still looking for the Horcruxes. For those of you who don’t follow, these are
seemingly random items that are the keys to defeating the Dark Lord known as
Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes). He has
recently gathered the Elder Wand (a wand that makes its owner unbeatable) and
is gaining strength. The crew as I call
them must desperately find the remaining Horcruxes and destroy them in order to
have any shot at defeating this wizard.
Throughout the film, and book, they enlist help from any and everywhere
they can possibly find it. All the way
up to the point where You-Know-Who comes gently knocking on the walls of
Hogwarts castle looking to kill “the boy who lived”.

Sunday, July 10, 2011

"I’d like to welcome you to the new age, an age where the world is at the beckon call of your fingertips."

Welcome to the internet age. I realize that yes I’m only a few years late writing about this but I was feeling nostalgic one day about how excited I used to get as a kid to go to the music store whenever an album from a band I liked came out, and how because of the internet I’ll probably never get to re-live that sort of excitement (also due in part to the fact that new music is horrible… Lady Gaga or Katy Perry anyone?). It then got me thinking about how other aspects of my life and everybody else’s has changed because of it and well, that’s my excuse for writing about it now. This isn’t going to be so much of an ‘one side or another’ piece like my monogamy and marriage blogs, but just more of an observation of this new internet age we live in.

Friday, July 1, 2011

Despite all of the ongoing negativity of the previous Transformers film, Revenge of the Fallen, the great and all-powerful Michael Bay has returned to bring us what is said to be the final piece in his trilogy. Dark of the Moon looked awfully awesome in pretty much all of its trailers. But, as I said to myself, someone who grew up watching the animated series on television and who also watched the entire original 1986 movie on You Tube one night for the heck of it, Bay’s films always look great in their trailers. This is true. Anyone care to disagree? But I simply couldn’t prevent myself from getting uber-excited as the release date drew nearer and nearer. I thoroughly enjoyed the first film and was slightly disappointed with the second. Hoping that they would bring a darker edge to the story and cut down on some of the comedy, I bought my ticket and sat in my seat.

The story to Dark of the Moon feels like it wants to be complicated, like it wants to be one of those science fiction plotlines that will keep you so fixated on every word that your eardrum might begin to bleed. But it’s not. It’s pretty basic and easy to follow. This is a good thing. A good thing because for a film such as this, you really want to just sit back and marvel at the special effects and action. In a nutshell, it has come to the attention of our hero Autobots that a spaceship from Cybertron, their home planet, actually crashed on the moon back in 1961. It has also come to the attention of our hero Autobots that there are humans that knew about this event and who failed to mention a word of it to anyone. Upon further investigation of the ship, Optimus and Ratchet discover another Autobot on it. I’ll use the word out-of-commission to describe the state that he laid in upon the ship.